Inflected Signs by Calgary-based Canadian artist Kim Huynh is the first of two Centre A exhibitions intended to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The exhibition 'comprises a selection of the artist's works that interrogate the relationship between linguistic constructions and materiality. Functional in seven different Asian dialects, Huynh is interested in skewing the context of recognizable cultural markers, such as English top hats, sugar, and the body, to reveal their societal and liguistic underpinnings, to deliberately confuse the materiality of the thing named (the object of discussion) with the materiality of the name (the modalities of production and reception of meaning).' - extracted from essay by Alice Jim. With artist biography
Onsite
English
2005
1
artist monograph,
catalogue
Unless - Ayesha HAMEED
Afterword - Alice Mingwai JIM, 詹明慧
Inflected Signs: Kim Huynh
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